There's actually good news to report on the annoying-phone-etiquette front: Cellphone users who are loud and irritating in public are getting better about that obnoxious behavior, which is "less common" than it used to be.

So says Pew Research Center, which happily shares that 74 percent of adults say they see this annoying activity "frequently" or "occasionally," while 25 percent say they "rarely" or "never" encounter it.

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